Chapter 109 - 107: Joyful Feast
The dense forest was lush, its branches obscuring the sky, and the ground beneath felt as soft as decaying flesh.
Puppets, reduced to slaves of desire, their bodies mere white bones, summoned half-blood Pet Beasts to launch an attack on a cold, ethereal figure.
The mastermind has been luring me to the center of the Mother Tree, the Moon Princess thought. That place is also the source of this forbidden affair.
Her indifferent eyes narrowed slightly. A Moon Blade twirled and danced, reflecting hundreds of moonlit shadows in a simultaneous volley!
SWISH...
Like a peacock spreading its tail, the majestic moonlight condensed to its utmost, transforming into a swath of frigid, sharp blades. Anyone struck burst into a mist of blood, their bones obliterated.
BANG!
When they drew near, the puppets’ bodies swelled abruptly before exploding into showers of corrupted blood.
The Moon Princess frowned.
The puppets controlled by the Desire Mother Tree posed no real threat on their own. However, a trace of the Mother Tree’s rules injected into them made them extremely troublesome. Whether killed or self-destructing, they inflicted a faint touch of pollution upon her each time.
In this forest of flesh, removing the pollution was very difficult. Bit by bit, it gradually eroded her Divinity, threatening to eventually corrupt her and cast her into the Abyss. As she delved deeper, the intensity of this pollution increased, putting her at a significant disadvantage.
But the Forbidden Items had to be dealt with. Once they took shape, they would give birth to a rules-based anomaly, radiating its influence over an entire area. Everyone would have to act within those rules to please the deities. Otherwise, the consequence of violating the rules was becoming a sacrifice to the forbidden Evil Gods, ultimately leading to their descent.